Category Archives: homosexuality

Somewhere over the rainbow crosswalk

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In preparation for Vancouver’s Pride Week, the city has painted tax-payer funded rainbow crosswalks onto the street; the rainbow crosswalks are to remain after Pride Week as a sign that Vancouver is an inclusive city – anyone at all can walk on them:

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From here:

The rainbow crosswalks were put in over the weekend as part of the annual Pride Week in the city and feature two more colours than the usual pride flag.

Vancouver Coun. Tim Stevenson said that’s because they’re a throwback to the ‘70s.

“The eight colours is the original flag,” Stevenson said. “Since this is the 35th anniversary (of Pride Week) they decided to put the original eight colours in.”

He said the $25,000 project isn’t just for the crosswalks, picnic tables and plants that adorn the area, but also for making a nice little meeting point in the centre of city’s LGBTTQ community.

The Diocese of New Westminster is also doing its bit by displaying a rainbow stained glass window on its website – neither real nor permanent, I suspect – as a sign that it is an inclusive diocese. It is so inclusive that the largest Anglican church in Canada was driven out of the diocese; it’s funny how an over-abundance of inclusion tends to do that:

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Desmond Tutu prefers Hell to homophobia

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Whenever someone uses the slippery word “homophobia”, we know immediately that rational thought has been abandoned in favour of a treasured but meaningless cliché. The OED defines homophobia as “an extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexual people”. My daughter suffered from arachnophobia, leading to numerous pranks involving rubber spiders finding their way into her glass of water; the resultant shrieking was gratifying to no-one but the perpetrator – usually her brother. That was (she has overcome it now) a true phobia.

I don’t know anyone who is homophobic; I am not denying the possibility of the existence of such a phobia, but I’ve never encountered it. I suppose it could be treated in much the same way as arachnophobia, by systematic desensitization: first the sufferer would be invited to look at a photograph of a homosexual, then be placed in the same room at opposite ends, later a “good morning” could be exchanged and finally the whole thing would end with a hug.

That is absurd because, of course, it isn’t what Desmond Tutu and his ilk mean by “homophobia.” In Tutu’s view a person who is “homophobic” is anyone who doesn’t agree with him about the morality or immorality of homosexual activity, regardless of whether the disagreement is founded in rationality or revelation.

For Tutu, it’s all about emotion; if fact, it almost appears as if he experiences an extreme and irrational aversion – a phobia – to anyone who disagrees with him about homosexuality – including God.

From here:

“I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place,” Archbishop Tutu said at the launch of the Free and Equal campaign in Cape Town.

“I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this.”

 

At the mention of sin, NDP leader has an attack of the vapours

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THOMAS-MULCAIRThe CIDA funding for Crossroads’ work in Uganda is back on again. Upon hearing this, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair was overcome by a paroxysm of indignation:

“It’s shocking to hear Minister Fantino defending the indefensible, standing up today and defending a group that on its website is attacking something that’s recognized and protected by Canadian law,” Mulcair said after question period.

“It goes against Canadian values. It goes against Canadian law. And he can’t defend that.”

What exactly has Crossroads done that Mulcair thinks “goes against Canadian law”? Crossroads has said that, according to the Bible, “pedophilia, homosexuality and lesbianism, sadism, masochism, transvestism, and beastiality [sic]” are sinful – perversions of what God intended when he invented sex.

Before he became a politician, Thomas Mulcair was a lawyer; obviously not a very good one since he is blissfully unaware of the fact that calling something sinful is not illegal – even in Canada. Not yet.

Crossroads Christian Communications targeted by homosexual lobbyists

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Crossroads is in Uganda helping to “dig wells, build latrines and promote hygiene”. CIDA has given Crossroads $544,813 of taxpayer money to help with the effort – a rare case of the effective application of foreign aid.

Now, Crossroads is a Christian organisation – a real one – so it regards homosexual activity as sinful, making this donation of taxpayer dollars a paradigm of political incorrectness, a heinous atrocity of cosmic proportions.

Who cares that Crossroads is doing a good job and is actually helping Ugandans? No-one in the mainstream media, it seems because the horror of calling homosexuality a sin is a far bigger outrage than an African without clean drinking water. In the deranged little world of liberals, LGBT crusaders and mainline church sympathisers, this is known as social justice.

The time is coming when to be a Christian in the West will amount to being a pariah, persona non grata – as welcome as a leper in a kindergarten. Perhaps the time has already come: the question is, will our society – and Ugandans – be better or worse off for it?

From here:

An evangelical organization that describes homosexuality as a “perversion” and a “sin” is receiving funding from the Government of Canada for its work in Uganda, where gays and lesbians face severe threats.

The federal government has denounced virulent homophobia in that East African country and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has condemned plans for an anti-gay bill that could potentially include the death penalty for homosexuals.

Nevertheless, the federal government is providing $544,813 in funding for Crossroads Christian Communications — an Ontario-based evangelical group that produces television programming — to help dig wells, build latrines and promote hygiene awareness in Uganda through 2014.

Until Tuesday, the organization’s website carried a list of “sexual sins” deemed to be “perversion”: “Turning from the true and/or proper purpose of sexual intercourse; misusing or abusing it, such as in pedophilia, homosexuality and lesbianism, sadism, masochism, transvestism, and bestiality.”

Lower down the page, the group asks sinners to “repent.”

“God cares too much for you (and all of His children) to leave such tampering and spiritual abuse unpunished,” according to the group’s website.

Just hours after The Canadian Press contacted the group to ask a spokesperson about the site, the page in question disappeared from public view.

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Steve Foster, president of the Quebec LGBT Council, said the federal government should stop funding groups like Crossroads.

For those interested in the Crossroads page that vanished, here it is, unexpurgated, complete with the indescribable abomination of Bible references:

Sexual Sins

 

Sexual Sins Include

Immorality – Moral behaviour that is contrary to God’s standards.
Perversion – Turning from the true and/or proper purpose of sexual intercourse; misusing or abusing it, such as in pedophilia, homosexuality and lesbianism, sadism, masochism, transvestism, and beastiality.
Adultery – Sexual activity with a person other than your spouse.
Fornication – Illicit sexual activity when you aren’t married.

Sexual sins are committed because of lust (1 John 2:16; Galatians 5:19-21). When you allow improper sexual drives to control you as a Christian, an inner tension will result in your mind, emotions and will. You will want to be spiritual, but find yourself being a slave to sensuality. The result is what the Bible calls double-mindedness (James 1:8), which leads to a reprobate mind (Romans 1:28).

Toronto Dominion: the diversity bank

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Religion isn’t dead in Canada: it’s not even languishing. The religion of diversity and inclusion is flourishing in Canadian companies. For example, the TD bank believes, with a confidence that can only be born of religious fervour, that diversity and inclusion being cardinal virtues is an a priori truth:

We take a holistic, three-pronged view of diversity and inclusion in our business activities: in how we recruit, manage and develop employees; how we serve our customers and market ourselves; and how we contribute to our communities.

While we’re gaining momentum, we know that becoming more diverse and inclusive takes time and commitment and we are still on the early stages of our journey.

Although it is lagging behind the commercial expression of this cultural credo, the Anglican Church of Canada adheres to a  similar pietism.

Naturally, the TD Bank concentrates much of its devotion on World Pride, the LGBTA “community” and health centres for “gay men” and “queer women”. TD’s “journey” to inclusion has yet to reach the more rarefied strata of paedophilia, bestiality, polyamory and incest: they themselves admit that they are “still on the early stages”.

Here is TD’s enticement to use their services: it appears that to get the $250, the bank would prefer you to be gay:

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University of Toronto distances itself from courage

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From here:

The University of Toronto has distanced itself from a controversial program dubbed “Courage” that is described as an anonymous support group to help young adults struggling to resist homosexual urges recently launched at the Catholic parish based on the school’s main campus.

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“The Newman Courage group is a spiritual support group for young adults who experience same-sex attractions and who desire to live chastely, in accordance with Catholic teaching,” reads the centre’s website. A pamphlet lists the five goals of Courage, including fostering a spirit of fellowship to help “ensure that no one will have to face problems of homosexuality alone.”

Note that the support group is not compelling anyone to do anything. In contrast, in a spirit of openness, tolerance and free enquiry, Toronto’s bastion of higher learning has concluded, for no particular reason other than liberal bigotry, that a homosexual who does not wish to act on his urges should be denied any assistance in living in his freely chosen manner: compulsory homosexuality.

Rowan Williams is frustrated that some Christians are disgusted by homosexuality

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From here:

He added: “Same with same sex marriage, where once more we’re used to being alongside people who are gay; many of our friends may be – indeed we may be – wrestling with that issue ourselves, and the Church is scratching its head and trying to work out where it is on all that, and what to think about it.

“What’s frustrating is that we still have Christian people whose feelings about it are so strong, and sometimes so embarrassed and ashamed and disgusted, that that just sends out a message of unwelcome, of lack of understanding, of lack of patience.

“So whatever we think about it, we need, as a Church, to be tackling what we feel about it.”

Rowan Williams, in his frustration, seems to miss a rather important distinction. We are all sinners and we all, from time to time do disgusting things; nevertheless, although somewhat tarnished, we are all still made in God’s image and should treat one another with the respect that God’s image deserves.

Just because an act evokes an emotional response of disgust doesn’t mean it isn’t intrinsically disgusting. Personally, I find the thought of homosexual sex simultaneously comical and disgusting; and not only do I feel not the least bit guilty about it, but I derive some satisfaction in knowing that my disgust has contributed in a small way to Rowan’s frustration.

Gay Pride march in Bratislava

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As it turns out, I missed it. What a shame. However, I did see a counter demonstration by a “Pro Family” group. Here are two of them that I chatted with:

 

When I first spoke to them, I was unaware that the Pride march had just finished, so I didn’t know that theirs was a counter demonstration. They told me that they are not “against homosexuals” they were simple “for the traditional family”. I agreed.

Interestingly, those in  pro-family group were almost all young.

There were a lot of police around, including helicopter patrols; there were no confrontations, though.

Penguin anthropomorphism

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Penguins once again become a touching metaphor for humans; this time homosexuals who want to raise children. A couple of supposedly gay penguins in Madrid are yearning to be parents. I’m not sure how anyone knows that they are in the throes of unfulfilled parental yearning other than the fact that they have built a nest. I was under the impression that building nests is just something birds do. Still, someone is going to put an egg in it.

That proves that it was OK to give Elton and David an egg… err, a baby.

From here:

Two gay Gentoo Penguins, that have for six years yearned to be parents, have been given their own egg to rear in Madrid, reports say.

The two male penguins, Inca and Rayas, met at Madrid’s Faunia Park six years ago, and have been inseparable since then. However, they have been building a nest every year in the hope of being able to nurture a young penguin, to no avail.

The Times reports today that zoo-keepers will place an egg in their nest, in order for them to become parents.